Welcome to the New Videogame Gold Rush

Divnich said that one or two of the new entrants into the market will find some measure of success. “It’s going to be a very interesting 2013,” he said. “The one thing that’s certain is that they all can’t succeed. The majority of them are not going to succeed.”

True enough. In the CD-ROM gold rush of two decades ago, most of the new consoles crashed and burned. The thing is, the one that didn’t was called PlayStation.